New to fediverse. Joined mostly because reddit has been annoying me for a while for it's algorithm use and general admin stuff. Joining piefed was still a big leap since I have some interest in privacy and security on the internet and joining anonymous server felt a bit suss. Some stranger somewhere would have my email and be able to monitor everything I do and say.
Now, of course reddit does the same and I had no problem (well a little problem) with it. They not only have the data, but they also use it to advertise to me and most definitely sell the data forward. Still, there is a difference on a company with a public leadership whose names are known, and who have to follow laws and mark down their privacy notice publicly. If a server admin gets funny with the data, I'm shit out of luck.
Well I joined so obviously I accepted the trade of but came here to see what others thought. Surprised there was not a discussion about this already.
On the negative side:
On the positive side:
The upside with having a profile history is that it allows for transparency. Unless you are using some specialty platform there will always be an account history.
True, but a lot of instances like Lemmy.World use that as one of their criteria to decide if they should block an instance
From a scroll through their list of blocked instances, I'm not so sure. Judging by the names, it's mostly not serious instances and the tankie instances known for harassment. One search for "lemmy instance no email" leads to reddthat, and that's not blocked by .world despite being among the most active (thus more likely to attract spam or abuse according to that theory).